The Long Beach Camerata Singers’ 59th Season promises to be Brilliant, Bold and Beautiful!
Dr. James K. Bass, Grammy Award-winning Artistic Director, announces the Long Beach Camerata Singers and Catalyst Chamber Ensemble 24/25 season with its opening concert, Cradle of Life.
This powerfully moving performance is the second and final installment of Camerata’s Peace Project focused on environmental justice. The Cradle of Life will celebrate Mother Earth with musical works such as The Peace of Wild Things by Jake Runestad, In Time of Silver rain by Gwyneth Walker and Earth Song by Frank Ticheli. The Camerata Singers eighty-voice choir performance will be held on Saturday, October 19th at 7:30 p.m. at the historic Wilson Auditorium.
The 59th Season will continue with Catalyst’s Candlelight Christmas, featuring the professional a Capella chamber ensemble singing holiday classics and sacred music in a beautiful atmosphere of candles and holiday décor.
Catalyst’s Candlelight Christmas will be performed at the Los Altos United Methodist Church in Long Beach on Wednesday, December 4th at 7:30 p.m. and will be repeated at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Palos Verdes on December 8th at 7:30 p.m.
A highlight of the Camerata holiday offerings is the traditional performance of Fredrick Handel’s Messiah. The 17th annual performance of this classic will be performed by a one -hundred- twenty voice choir with the Tesserae Baroque Ensemble at the newly renovated Long Beach City College Auditorium on Thursday, December 19th at 7:30 p.m.
A special Enchanted Holiday Package is available for patrons who wish to enjoy both Candlelight Christmas and The Messiah for a discounted price. For more information go to 2024 Enchanted Holiday Packages – Long Beach Camerata Singers
The Requiem by Gabriel Fauré is one of the most beautiful and celebrated works in the world. The music contains the incredible harmonic language of this French master composer and is hopeful in its message to mankind. The “Pié Jesu” has become one of the most beloved melodies in the entire classical repertoire and evokes visions of heaven and a better world to come. The audience will be taken to sounds of the great cathedrals of Paris at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Long Beach on Sunday, March 16th at 4:30 p.m.
The Catalyst Chamber Ensemble will feature some of the greatest music of the Jazz world in Blue Notes. With special vocal arrangements of classics sung by the likes of Sarah Vaughan, Etta James, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holiday, this concert will put the spotlight on this great American artform. Blue Notes will be performed at Los Altos United Methodist Church on Sunday, April 6 at 4:30 p.m.
Camerata’s final concert of the 24/25 season honors the legacy of the USO (United Service Organizations) and the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII in An Evening of Song. The concert, entitled A Sentimental Journey, will feature the voices of Camerata’s talented vocalists as they perform some of the 1940’s classics by The Andrew Sisters, Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman. Boogie Woogie Bugel Boy, The White Cliffs of Dover and A Sentimental Journey are just a few numbers promising a nostalgic experience. A Sentimental Journey will be performed at the historic Wilson Auditorium in May.
The Long Beach Camerata Singers is a non-profit 501c3 corporation devoted to preserving and promoting the choral artform. The mission statement states: The Long Beach Camerata Singers believe that music is a force for peace. We enrich and transform lives of our performers and community through excellence in performance, innovative programming and arts education.
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